Ischigualasto Nature Park

Ischigualasto Provincial Park (Ischigualasto Provincial Park) is a natural park that is located in the northwestern part of Argentina, near the border with Chile.Park Ischigualasto is famous for a variety of bizarre mountain formations in the form of stone pillars, mushrooms and other natural sculptures.

Ischigualasto Nature Park is a huge desert valley. In the east it is surrounded by the Cerro Colorado Mountains, and in the west by Cerro los Rastros. In terms of the quantity and quality of the finds made here, as well as their importance, this area is unparalleled worldwide, in connection with which the park was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are many different fossil plants, as well as dinosaur bones. This place is called the Lunar Valley because of the extraordinary beauty of the night scenery at the full moon, when the earth's relief creates an unprecedented game of shadows. The flora and fauna of Ischigualasto are diverse. In the park you can see and feed gray Argentine foxes, whiskeys and rabbits. On the territory of the park live two species of South American vultures - turkey and urubu, condors, peculiar animals - mara, many songbirds and even representatives of the family of parrots. Vegetation is represented mainly by rare prickly shrubs, cacti, and trees (retama, chanyar, algorobo). You can travel around the park only as part of organized car excursions and necessarily with a local guide.